Artist

(b. 1804, Montegrino, d. 1873, Cremona)

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Italian painter, also known as Il Piccio. He was sponsored by Conte Giovanni Spini to study at the Accademia Carrara, Bergamo. Here Carnevali was subject not only to the influence of his teacher, the Neo-classical painter Giuseppe Diotti (1779-1846), a former pupil of Andrea Appiani, but also to the great variety of Venetian Old Master paintings available to him in the academy's collection. Carnovali rapidly became one of Bergamo's most sought-after portrait painters, his work being much in demand among the intellectual elite of the town, such as Giovanni Maironi da Ponte (1826) and Conte Guglielmo Lochis (1835; both Accademia Carrara, Bergamo). His first public commission was the Education of the Virgin (1826) for the parish church of Almenno S Bartolomeo, near Bergamo. The altarpiece clearly shows the influence of Appiani, while for his portraits Moretto da Brescia and Giovanni Battista Moroni were also an important source of inspiration. After the first short trips for study purposes, made on foot in the second half of the 1820s, he travelled as far as Rome in 1831 and stopped in Parma on the way back. There are records of a second stay in Rome in 1843 and a long trip to Naples in 1845. He moved to Milan in 1838 and took part in the Brera exhibitions just twice, in 1839 and 1840. These years saw a shift towards painting of a less descriptive character with soft, hazy outlines under the influence of Correggio and Andrea Appiani as well as the French art seen in Paris around 1840. //

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Category	Artists
Artists by letter	C
Artist nationality	Italian